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you have bullied us, beaten us up, ignored us, gay baited us, ect., you know, spread rumors about us, lied about us, you know, and what is interesting, i thought about this on the train down here, that the rampage school shooters are the boys' version of girls who commit suicide after being bullied and shunned in all of that, that they can't take it anymore. the boys explode, girls internalize. this is -- but it's a similar kind of dynamic. it's not true that only boys bully. we know that that's not true, but they have different kinds of responses to it. for the boys, they, you know, they feel wronged, badly done by, ignored, and i'll show you, get even with you. that's their logic. now, there are thousands of boys who are feeling this all the time. >> host: right. >> guest: why are school shootings horrifying and in some ways, you know, a regular o current also reasonably rare? like, 99% of the schools have not had one. why? thousands of boys feeling this every day in their basements attics, bedrooms, blowing up the galaxy on the computer, wanting to take revenge, why not? schools ha
you have bullied us, beaten us up, ignored us, gay baited us, ect., you know, spread rumors about us, lied about us, you know, and what is interesting, i thought about this on the train down here, that the rampage school shooters are the boys' version of girls who commit suicide after being bullied and shunned in all of that, that they can't take it anymore. the boys explode, girls internalize. this is -- but it's a similar kind of dynamic. it's not true that only boys bully. we know that...
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did you use different phones? >> guest: we were very careful about using phones, and we had a special -- after they hacked my e-mail, we -- i i never used that account again. and we used some encrypted accounts. >> host: and the nsa was probably watching that. >> guest: probably. [laughter] well, i told, you know, i told my chief of staff who was very upset about when this happened, i said to him, look, you probably are thinking that the bad guys in act stand did this -- pakistan did this. it could have been many other people that are doing this, that want to listen about what's going on. i said, so don't worry, i said. here there will be a lot of interested parties, even other states, i said, that might want to know what's going on. so let us not worry excessively because otherwise we will immobilize ourselves in the process of the investigation, and i don't want that. there are risks, yes. we have to minimize the risks, we have to have good protection. but aside from that, let's just do things as if this were as
did you use different phones? >> guest: we were very careful about using phones, and we had a special -- after they hacked my e-mail, we -- i i never used that account again. and we used some encrypted accounts. >> host: and the nsa was probably watching that. >> guest: probably. [laughter] well, i told, you know, i told my chief of staff who was very upset about when this happened, i said to him, look, you probably are thinking that the bad guys in act stand did this --...
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you have fully be a mess up, spreader roars about us, lied about us. what is really interesting, i was kidding about this the rampant schools users are analogous to the boy version of these girls to commit suicide after being so relentlessly cyber bullied and shawn then all of that. they cannot take it anymore. the boys explode, the girls internalize. so it is a similar kind of dynamic. it is not true that only boys bully. we know that that is not true, but there are different kinds of responses. and so these boys, they feel wronged. they feel badly done by. they feel ignored. i will show you. i will get even with you. that is their logic. now, there are thousands of boys who are feeling this all the time. why is it that school shootings are although horrifying and in some ways a regular occurrence, also reasonably rare. 99 percent of schools does not have one. thousands of boys are feeling this every single day in their basements, attics, bedrooms, blowing of the galaxy and the computer, one to take revenge. why don't they? in there you have a profile
you have fully be a mess up, spreader roars about us, lied about us. what is really interesting, i was kidding about this the rampant schools users are analogous to the boy version of these girls to commit suicide after being so relentlessly cyber bullied and shawn then all of that. they cannot take it anymore. the boys explode, the girls internalize. so it is a similar kind of dynamic. it is not true that only boys bully. we know that that is not true, but there are different kinds of...
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and the reason i bring this us, the future cotton planter. they were talking i believe henry watson, jr. also wrote that the ancient gips had the curly hair and other feature was of the african race in that contemporary egyptians were only lighter in -- european and professor did not leave it to his students to infer that black africans so often advanced in fair of slavery. expand on that, because it seems to be this -- apparently what you're saying here there was a conflict, i take it, who were the egyptian. how was racism taught. who were africans, who weren't africans. even to the point, i bring it up, the argument takes place today. >> guest: yeah. it sounds modern. >> host: it does! >> guest: every table and street side book seller. was engaged in the debate with some proud -- >> host: right. >> guest: for at least a decade. it sounds very modern. it is modern. let's think about who it is. henry watson, jr. is a young man from east windsor, crittle. who goes to washington college in harvard, which is now trinity college. and finishes edu
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the program is about one hour. >> thanks for joining us. "white-collar government." one thing i found out on my kindle is that before you became an assistant professor, do you want to talk a little bit about yourself and how you see your transition from working class or do you see yourself coming from working class to the white collar profession now? >> definitely a textbook of being the professor in college is great and it is a lot of fun but i don't do a lot of work with my hands but there was a time in my life when i worked at a pepsi bottle plant in tulsa oklahoma and the cashier at the world's largest wal-mart. i worked at a catfish restaurant and a dairy queen. so that was sort of a part of my life. i paid my way through college and paid my way through a little bit of high school, too. these experiences were sort of a part of the inspiration for the research that i do right now. so, you know, my last job before going to graduate school was at a pepsi bottling plant in tulsa and i sort of went from that to a ph.d. program and political science at princeton and w
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tell us that story. >> guest: nathan hale was sad he missed bunker hill. he wanted to see the action. and i know you notice inside and out. he missed by a little while. he comes back with washington and gets a familiarity there and he's a teacher and a yale graduate. talmadge will be important leader. nathan hale volunteers to be a spy. washington says he needs volunteers and he knew that this guy was ill-prepared to do it, he had no experience, extremely bright, good looking guy, robust and ambitious and seemed to be fearless. he said against by understand and what i've concluded is against his better instincts. as far as we can tell and as far as my research would reveal a couple days. he goes into huntington and i saw the point in which he crossed and in a couple days there's a few stories going on but one of which said that he was overheard asking some questions and some one pretended to be sympathetic to what he's doing and he was captured and a few days later he is hanged unceremoniously. there is a debate about the location that on a understand was
tell us that story. >> guest: nathan hale was sad he missed bunker hill. he wanted to see the action. and i know you notice inside and out. he missed by a little while. he comes back with washington and gets a familiarity there and he's a teacher and a yale graduate. talmadge will be important leader. nathan hale volunteers to be a spy. washington says he needs volunteers and he knew that this guy was ill-prepared to do it, he had no experience, extremely bright, good looking guy, robust...
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and so all arms wind up being used in this is 1927. and nobody takes note. but towards the end of this, eisenhower starts asking if we have made a huge mistake by seeking out an ally and building up without realizing that i lyse primary situation is not the same as us. and that's eisenhower and lyndon johnson and he becomes president. he stays away from john f. kennedy's policy of becoming closer to india. and distancing himself from pakistan. but he says we have a post in pakistan and because we have this, we try to be as kind as possible. and he's very helpful. and then in 1968 he finally says that, you know, i think i made a mistake. you know? nixon is the only one who is unabashedly pro-pakistan and the infamous rule against global opinion based on the assumption and despite american help, america was accused of supporting the genocide in this way. and in this way, president reagan talks about jihad in afghanistan and it's a project that had long before the americans working. this is a project supported by the u.s. the interservice intelligence ran this
and so all arms wind up being used in this is 1927. and nobody takes note. but towards the end of this, eisenhower starts asking if we have made a huge mistake by seeking out an ally and building up without realizing that i lyse primary situation is not the same as us. and that's eisenhower and lyndon johnson and he becomes president. he stays away from john f. kennedy's policy of becoming closer to india. and distancing himself from pakistan. but he says we have a post in pakistan and because...
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it was a big deal to us. there was a lot of anti-catholic prejudice. >> i was seven at the time, but i have a very vivid memory of our principal walking into our second grade class from at band nine school in silver crews, new york. only two things i remember after that was when i got home, standing on the coffee table and my father holding me while i was crying and the drums. and then on sunday, on the tv and watching live oslo being shot by ruby. what got you interested in politics? >> guest: honestly, john f. kennedy did. that is one reason why i did the book. i have always had it in the back of my mind. i wanted to write about this once the had the time and resources to do it. we tried, we are doing a big project on kennedy. the book is a five-year project. that is why it 600 pages. if you give an academic another year he will add another hundred pages, but we are doing a massive, online course that is free to anyone who wants to sign up through the platform. we are doing a special how mobile application
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key us up with one of the things they accomplished. give us one story or revelation that they get to washington. >> guest: one of the big breaks is that the british were bragging about a it to baseball the paper so why is that a big deal at a trillion dollars a month if you go and flood the market that says the patriots market, the new colonies, this new country with courtesy, if you flood if it makes to pay worthless. so they were losing money and losing their homes and leaving their families behind fighting this war. what would be harder than that? fighting for no money. they would've disputed the troops and get them to break up. so washington doesn't just say act like they would act. it's everything from this day on, brand-new courtesy. so we made the adjustment. we won the rain and robert thompson is directly involved. >> host: and that is because the new about the paper? >> guest: the word got to roberts that in philadelphia, this paper where they are printing it just like ours with the special paper where we get our dollars, the
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send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up next on booktv, "after words" with guest host ken feinberg, former special master of the september 11th victim compensation p fund. in this week urban anthropologist elizabeth greenspan and her book, "battle for ground zero: inside the political struggle to rebuild the world trade center." in it, she exposes the bitterness with which many groups stake a claim to real estate considered sacred by so many. this program is about an hour. >> host: i'm kenneth feinberg, and i have the great, distinct pleasure of chatting for a few minutes with elizabeth greenspan, anthropologist, lecturer at harvard university and the author of a very important new book, "battle for ground zero: inside the political struggle to rebuild the world trade center." this battle is not about al-qaeda, and it's not about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, at least not directly. what it is about is a social, anthropological study of the various political, social and other pressures that went into the final decisions surrounding the site a
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start using it for other stuff. and i read it in the book and as the native american military threat in new england declined, the interest in evangelizing native americans declined with the best. to some extent linked. that doesn't mean there wasn't the desire to christianize native people but there was also a strategic interest in evangelizing and christianizing them. one of the things that happened that i wrestled with in the book related to the question you asked me earlier, did students bring slaves to campus? yes. they marry and pay fees for slaves on campus. ending king's college, george washington comes to new york city with jackie and jackie's slave and the president of columbia king's college, myles cooper, gives him a suite of rooms that jackie has painted and suited to his taste and joe is given the smaller bed room of the two. students arrive with slave to campus, the faculty often had slaves but one of the things i wanted to get across in a chapter about enslaved people on campus is enslaved people were
start using it for other stuff. and i read it in the book and as the native american military threat in new england declined, the interest in evangelizing native americans declined with the best. to some extent linked. that doesn't mean there wasn't the desire to christianize native people but there was also a strategic interest in evangelizing and christianizing them. one of the things that happened that i wrestled with in the book related to the question you asked me earlier, did students...
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maybe you tried to warn us? >> but that response is not uncommon when overall things has been so good why other nations are so bad but that is beside the point of it is an injustice we should deal with that is shed that be the primary way the very kins if we had been successful it is because we have established a bar that we try to meet its that. what the book attempts to do is that there are these values but also the norms that led people to be intolerant to serve religious groups and we need to embrace that not only with the of persecution today but of possible persecution from the future. >> host: there is a whole section that is an analysis of the intolerance. tell me what research you had to do for that looks like you had to describe almost a psychological condition to be intolerant and have anxieties. >> looking at the american example but you draw on the response of the previous leaders when i presented publicly, often in you get the of well-meaning people who don't understand this could be considered to
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. >> host: thanks for joining us. "white-collar government," one thing that i just found out this morning because i was reading a book on my kindle is you have worked in various blue-collar jobs before you became an assistant professor. he wanted to talk about yourself and how you see your transition from working class. do you see yourself come from working-class to come here in the white-collar profession now. >> hostand the deathly a white-r job now. been professor at the college is great, a lot of fun. but it don't do a lot of work with my hands. at the was a time in my life when i was, i worked at a pepsi bottling plant in tulsa, oklahoma. i was a cashier at the world's largest wal-mart. i worked at a cash-rich restaurant. i worked at dairy queen. so that was sort of a part of my life, i paid my way through college. i paid my way through a little bit of high school. and yes, these experiences were sort of part of the inspiration for the research that i do right now. my last job before going to graduate school was
. >> host: thanks for joining us. "white-collar government," one thing that i just found out this morning because i was reading a book on my kindle is you have worked in various blue-collar jobs before you became an assistant professor. he wanted to talk about yourself and how you see your transition from working class. do you see yourself come from working-class to come here in the white-collar profession now. >> hostand the deathly a white-r job now. been professor at...
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i never used that account again and we used some and corrected accounts. >> host: and if they were probably watching that. >> guest: i told my chief of staff i said to him look you probably are thinking the bad guys in pakistan did this. it could have been many other people doing this that want to listen to about what was going on. they said don't worry there will be a lot of interested parties even in the member states that might want to know what's going on. so let us not worry excessively because otherwise we wouldn't and mobilize ourselves in the process of the investigation and i don't want that. we have to minimize the risk and have good protection but aside from that lets just do things as normal of an investigation as possible. >> host: how many days total did you spend in pakistan on those three tracks? >> guest: i don't know. 15 days or so. in addition to that we went to other countries. we went to england, the united arab emirates. i interviewed musharraf near philadelphia of all places. >> host: what did he tell you? >> guest: sort of a different story. one of the things i asked
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>> host: you have to use the right and use it to bring it to life. there is a passage that woodhall brings it to life and his sisters yell at him meanwhile it is at stake in washington says treat this like cold we don't have much -- gold we don't have much. now people will fight to me on this but it is our conclusion there was a woman they refer to someone that would be the extreme help to us. when she joined after the letter the intelligence picks up and it seems that she penetrated the social circles. and entrees two is the key figure very well respected and is a spy for the british eventually working with benedict arnold with the effort to change the world forever to end the '04. this will bid seems to penetrate social circles with extreme danger all around. without a shadow of a doubt that james the only employed townsend. >> host: of the first stay with the zero women. what else do we know? >> guest: very sophisticated and comfortable with high end social circles. >> host: you don't give us her name to what we don't have it i don't think is stro
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we used to have the program de jour. there was a new phrase that could be used and things come in. i'm not sure that any of them really made a difference. did any of them make a difference -- >> guest: no. >> host: we agree on that too. >> guest: you know, we do. all of these similarly initiatives of this and that and it was really the program de jour they were usually sold to the company by consult assistants and i think one of the cancers in the side of american industry and the american society of human resource professionals is going to be sending me a bunch of angry e-mails on this one, but human resources in the united states have almost become a cancer use growth in the side of american industry. in that human resources used to be keep track of people, keep their personnel records, and make sure they get paid and serve the right ones up for raises periodically. well, human resources has expanded in to all kind of programs that betterment and, i mean, just myriad programs. and they grow and grow and they grow. and they are the inthat -- instigators of many of these enormously
we used to have the program de jour. there was a new phrase that could be used and things come in. i'm not sure that any of them really made a difference. did any of them make a difference -- >> guest: no. >> host: we agree on that too. >> guest: you know, we do. all of these similarly initiatives of this and that and it was really the program de jour they were usually sold to the company by consult assistants and i think one of the cancers in the side of american industry and...
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but used every available piece of information. and the thing is really striking to me is the same answer was given every time whether we are looking at modern surveys, called the american representation study, it was conducted in 1958. and it's a sample of the u.s. house members may have really detailed information about what they do for a living what they thought about the issues and how they voted and what committees they were on. once i got access to that, about that in as well. and i got the same answer every single time. this was the striking thing to me was that every day, every level of government, i always got the same answer. and that is politicians really do bring a different twist that is to the political office and especially politicians who did this and the private sector. and that seems to be a major dividing line in our political institutions, they tend to be more coworker including white-collar jobs to be less coworker and more pro-business and whether we are looking at the 1950s were the present day. >> so how do
but used every available piece of information. and the thing is really striking to me is the same answer was given every time whether we are looking at modern surveys, called the american representation study, it was conducted in 1958. and it's a sample of the u.s. house members may have really detailed information about what they do for a living what they thought about the issues and how they voted and what committees they were on. once i got access to that, about that in as well. and i got...
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>> guest: well, he used the dramatic parts. they are able to listen because, you know, i don't know if you check -- i listen now to go toer market, people talk loud, and other times people see it, say hello, say, hey, what's going on? what are you guys leaving? headed north? where we headed? really, okay, great. he would go upstairs, pen a letter, and go to the location that he penned the letter, and do it sooner, after the beginning, in invisible i think, and it was precious stuff that john jay invented or brought to the states. >> host: okay. talk about the ink. how did it work? >> guest: the way the ink was, they calledded it the sthettic stain, and what you do is write, and i've tried this, i where and imagine writing and not see the letter prior to what you wrote. it's confusing. >> host: vanishes as you write? >> guest: as you write. you're writing this stuff down, and you put it inside a book, and it comes off at a white page, or write 76 in the middle of the book. i don't know what it means, but that means you go to 76
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sometimes history gives us lessons and sometimes we don't know them. that brings me right to kind of two of the real lightning rod subject of your book, iran and afghanistan. those are both countries that are very much front page news in the united states today in terms of policies that frankly feel stuck and in many ways we are dealing with a legacy of the tom alt of 1979 in both of those country but frankly i'm not sure that we come up with a better way to negotiate with the iranians than we did at the disastrous time of the hostagetaking in afghanistan. have we learned the lessons of the last superpower to find itself enmeshed in a war there? it's hard to say that when our war in afghanistan is now the longest war in u.s. history by a long shot. so let's start with iran for example. what surprised you as you delves into the history of this? something we feel that we know but i think you talked about a lot of things we didn't know or had forgotten. >> it think the most fascinating to me as i delved into the history of the randian revolution is this b
sometimes history gives us lessons and sometimes we don't know them. that brings me right to kind of two of the real lightning rod subject of your book, iran and afghanistan. those are both countries that are very much front page news in the united states today in terms of policies that frankly feel stuck and in many ways we are dealing with a legacy of the tom alt of 1979 in both of those country but frankly i'm not sure that we come up with a better way to negotiate with the iranians than we...
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individual body among other things, the loss of individuality and that's why today we don't tend to use the word called because as you said is has more about the people and what they expect with proper religion to be and prefer to talk about the new religious movements which tend to have these characteristics that they tend to be tight knit and they often have a charismatic leader and often lead people to reject former parts of their lives to not be antisocial but remove themselves from the mainstream of society. sockeye as i said one of the key parts of that is individualism and bringing this into today as you were asking, the key part of american society is this vulgarization of the individual in the sense that all of our rights ultimately come down to the individual and that we should be as free as possible. so there are those who are non-secular who believe that their religious freedoms are being trumbull upon if there is any kind of restriction on them at all as though we have the right to do anything individually we want which obviously we don't. we live in a society and various r
individual body among other things, the loss of individuality and that's why today we don't tend to use the word called because as you said is has more about the people and what they expect with proper religion to be and prefer to talk about the new religious movements which tend to have these characteristics that they tend to be tight knit and they often have a charismatic leader and often lead people to reject former parts of their lives to not be antisocial but remove themselves from the...
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that's why we don't tend use the term cult. it says more about the people who are using it. what they expect proper religion to be. and prefer to talk about new religious movement that tend have the characteristic. they tend to be tight-knit. a charismatic leader. lead people to reject former part of their lives. so not be antisocial but to remove themselves from the main stream of society. one of the key part of individual lymph. bringing it to today you were asking a key part of american society is this the individual. they often come down to the individual and that we should be as free as possible. there are those who are non seq. already, who believe their religious freedom are being -- if there's any kind of restriction on them at all. as well we have the right to do anything judgely we want. obviously we don't. we flif a society. and various rights have to be leveraged against other rights. i don't have a right for the citizens to yell fire in a crowded thertd. i don't have that right. there are limits to the right. my sense of moral order is being restricted from bein
that's why we don't tend use the term cult. it says more about the people who are using it. what they expect proper religion to be. and prefer to talk about new religious movement that tend have the characteristic. they tend to be tight-knit. a charismatic leader. lead people to reject former part of their lives. so not be antisocial but to remove themselves from the main stream of society. one of the key part of individual lymph. bringing it to today you were asking a key part of american...
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not all of us, very few of us can do it. but there are physicists who can cope with this, these profundities, these difficulties of modern physics. it isn't easily compatible with common sense. >> host: how do you mean? >> guest: well, the big bang and the statement that physicists make, the time and space began at the big bang, there is no meaning to the word "before." well, i can't comprehend that. i don't think you can. >> host: no. but i'm not the number one thinker in the world, you are. [laughter] >> guest: no reason to retreat from it, because if you could do physics by common sense, you wouldn't need physicists. i mean, there are difficulties here which common sense can't cope with, and some physicists say that when they actually try to understand it with their own subjective, intuitive feelings, they can't either. they can do the mathematics and it works. lawrence krause, my colleague, we did a film together called "the unbelievers." and he's written a book called "a universe from nothing." and he produces physical,
not all of us, very few of us can do it. but there are physicists who can cope with this, these profundities, these difficulties of modern physics. it isn't easily compatible with common sense. >> host: how do you mean? >> guest: well, the big bang and the statement that physicists make, the time and space began at the big bang, there is no meaning to the word "before." well, i can't comprehend that. i don't think you can. >> host: no. but i'm not the number one...
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tell us what we don't know already about john quincy. >> john quincy adams is the only u.s. president who resurrected a dead political career in russia of all places. he lobbied for free trade. he'd been down on his luck and suddenly emerges as someone liable to be president. >> and you are also writing about louis c. adams. >> yes, this was his wife and she had to leave her sons behind in boston to go to russia and this wasn't her twice. and then she emerges as someone trusted with a decision making power in her life and death matters. she really changes and transforms to be reunited with her family. >> how did you come about this particular piece of subject matter? >> i read about the diary because she has a trip from st. petersburg russia to paris in 40 days and i thought this could be a movie. then i realized it means to be a book about both of them and their relationship and how they get strength from one another and so that is how this came to be. >> is the book empathizing your foreign policy in that era war is emphasizing more of their relationship or a little of bot
tell us what we don't know already about john quincy. >> john quincy adams is the only u.s. president who resurrected a dead political career in russia of all places. he lobbied for free trade. he'd been down on his luck and suddenly emerges as someone liable to be president. >> and you are also writing about louis c. adams. >> yes, this was his wife and she had to leave her sons behind in boston to go to russia and this wasn't her twice. and then she emerges as someone...
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. >> joining us now on booktv is james restton, jr., the newest book called "the accidental victim: jfk, oswald, and the real target in dallas." what do you mean by "the real target in dallas," it's a story, but there's been 50 years of conspiracy theories on the jfk assassination, and i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the mind set of lee harvey, the killer. what i attempt to do here is go to the core of the motives for picking up the weapon on november 22. you put two things together, first. the attitude towards kennedy where he had absolutely no an mouse towards the president at all, and, in fact, admired the president for his policy, but being in the car with kennedy, he had a long standing grudge that had to do with his change in the military's discharge from honorable to dishonble. he blamed him for this because he appealed to changes. that was back in 1962, and that hounded him to change in the discharge, hounded him for the next year and a half. i believe he put that on frustrations, so he had a rage and anger, but no such attitude towards kenn
. >> joining us now on booktv is james restton, jr., the newest book called "the accidental victim: jfk, oswald, and the real target in dallas." what do you mean by "the real target in dallas," it's a story, but there's been 50 years of conspiracy theories on the jfk assassination, and i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the mind set of lee harvey, the killer. what i attempt to do here is go to the core of the motives for picking up...